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Gulliver's Travels (miniseries)
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Gullivers Travels is a U. S. TV miniseries based on Jonathan Swifts novel of the same name, produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment. This miniseries is notable for being one of the few adaptations of Swifts novel to feature all four voyages. The miniseries aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4, and it was shot in England and Portugal. The series won five Emmy Awards including in the Outstanding Miniseries category, in this version, Dr. Gulliver has returned to his family after a long absence. The action shifts back and forth between flashbacks of his travels and the present where he is telling the story of his travels and has committed to an insane asylum. While the miniseries remains faithful to the novel, the ending has changed for a more upbeat conclusion. In the miniseries, he recovers from this obsession and returns to his wife and it took years to find the financial backing for the miniseries. The project required a deal of Special Effects work. Producer Duncan Kenworthy said that, It was something Id been developing while Jim was still alive and we wanted to do the whole book, and that was what interested Jim. Jim Hensons Creature Shop created several CGI wasps and some prosthetic make-up for the Yahoos, the animals seen in this film were provided by A1 Animals. The story begins on the night that Lemuel Gulliver arrives back at home, Gulliver imagines for a moment that he is back on the shipwreck that started his travels. Meanwhile, Gulliver is found by his wife Mary and son Tom in the stable the next day. He then proceeds to tell his story starting back to the day of the shipwreck and the arrival of Gulliver to Lilliput. Gulliver continues to explain the customs of Lilliput, such as the naming of officials by doing rituals such as the jumping over. Gulliver is then presented to the Empress of Lilliput and is asked to fight a war against the country of Blefuscu. Gulliver then accepts and wins the war in order to show gratitude towards the Lilliputians, after some time, they ask him to eliminate Blefuscu further which Gulliver refuses. A fire occurs at the palace which Gulliver puts out with his urine enough to end up soaking the trapped Empress, the Empress demands that her husband have Gulliver executed. After fleeing from the Emperors army, Gulliver ends up on the run, Gullivers new Lilliputian friends help him by hiding him, reciprocating Gullivers help towards them to obtain the highest office

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown

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If These Walls Could Talk
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If These Walls Could Talk is a 1996 made-for-cable film, broadcast on HBO. It follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion, each of the three stories takes place in the same house,22 years apart,1952,1974, and 1996. All three segments were co-written by Nancy Savoca, Savoca directed the first and second segment while Cher directed the third. The womens experiences in each vignette are designed to demonstrate the popular views of society on the issue in each of the given decades, debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival, If These Walls Could Talk became a surprise success and was the highest-rated movie in HBO history. It was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Miniseries or Television Film, however, abortion at the time is strictly illegal. Claire eventually finds another nurse who provides her the number of a woman who can find her someone to perform the abortion. The woman on the phone tells Claire that the only trustworthy abortionist she knows is located in Puerto Rico, Claire finally manages to abort, but dies shortly afterwards due to hemorrhage. She considers abortion with the support of her daughter but ultimately chooses to keep the child. The 1996 segment deals with Christine Cullen, a student who got pregnant by a married professor, decides on an abortion when he breaks up with her. After consulting with her roommate, she makes an appointment with Dr. Beth Thompson, however, the abortion takes place during a violent protest, and an anti-abortion protester walks in on the operation and shoots Dr. Thompson. Cher commented It took someone with Demis power and fortitude to have something like this made, without that power, you couldnt do it. These topics are not on everybodys top 10 list of things to do, a sequel anthology, If These Walls Could Talk 2, aired in 2000. The subject addressed in it was lesbianism

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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States

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A&E Network
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The channel originally focused programming on biographies, documentaries, and drama series but has later expanded to include reality television programming. As of July 2015, the A&E network is available to approximately 95,968,000 pay television households in the United States, the U. S. version of the channel is shown in Canada while international versions exist for Australia, Latin America, and Europe. A&E launched on February 1,1984, initially available to 9.3 million cable television homes in the U. S. the network is a result of the 1984 merger of Hearst/ABCs Alpha Repertory Television Service and RCA-owned The Entertainment Channel. When A&E debuted, the took over the satellite transponder timeslot that ARTS occupied from its launch in 1981. Childrens television channel Nickelodeon signed off just before 9 p. m. Eastern Time, and A&E took over at 9 p. m. with a programming block. However, some cable providers continued to carry Nickelodeon and A&E on the same channel and it was not until the early 1990s that these companies found separate channels for both networks. A&E was envisioned as a counterpart to PBS, and in its early days focused on such PBS-style programming as the Leonard Bernstein Fidelio. By 1990, A&Es original programming accounted for 35 to 40 percent of the program content. The comedy series An Evening at the Improv built a young audience in the late 80s. Also, Comedy On the Road won a CableACE Award, both series were produced by Larry ODaly, A&Es signature show was Biography, a one-hour documentary series that A&E revived in 1987. In 1994, airings of Biography went from weekly broadcasts to airing five nights a week, the nightly series became A&Es top-rated show and one of cable televisions most notable successes. Biography received Primetime Emmy Awards in 1999 and 2002, in its first decade, A&E had limited advertising, with fewer commercials at the time, mostly for A&E programs and its magazine. Beginning in the mid-90s, advertising was increased substantially on the channel, in May 1995, the channels name officially changed to the A&E Network, to reflect its declining focus on arts and entertainment. By 1996, the network had branded itself as simply A&E, even the arts patron often finds arts on TV not as satisfying as it should be. And the word entertainment is too vague, therefore, much like ESPN uses its letters rather than what they stand for – Entertainment Sports Network – we decided to go to just A&E. The network created two original weekly series, Sidney Lumets 100 Centre Street and Nero Wolfe, both of which lasted from 2001 to 2002. In May 2003, A&E launched a campaign with the networks new tagline. In addition, A&E had garnered favorable notice for true-crime documentary series such as Cold Case Files, American Justice, City Confidential, Investigative Reports, the network also cut back on its broadcasts of Biography from originally twice daily to weekend mornings only

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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time

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George Wallace (film)
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George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it, Sinise, the film was based on the 1996 biography Wallace, The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Marshall Frady, who also co-wrote the teleplay. Frankenheimers film was praised by critics, in addition to the Emmy awards. Angelina Jolie also received a Golden Globe for her performance as Wallaces second wife, George Wallace portrays the political life of a complex man. The film follows the history of its namesake, from the 1950s when Wallace was a court judge in Barbour County. The movie depicts his symbolic Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, where Wallace attempted to block black students from entering the University of Alabama. It details his stance on segregation in Alabama at the time, which proved popular with his white constituents. This eventually leads to his attempted assassination—and his surprise victory in several states during the 1968 Presidential election, the New York Times Caryn James wrote that events were recreated with startling veracity and tension in the two-part mini-series called simply George Wallace. James wrote that Sinise was amazing and Mare Winningham was extraordinary, Hanan, Charles M. Jackson, Matthew W. Hanan, Charles M. Lagola, Douglas A. Jackson, Matthew W

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John Frankenheimer
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John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, The Train, Seconds, Grand Prix, French Connection II, Black Sunday, and Ronin. He was considered one of the last remaining directors who insisted on having control over all elements of production. Frankenheimers 30 feature films and over 50 plays for television were notable for their influence on contemporary thought and he became a pioneer of the modern-day political thriller, having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War. He developed a tremendous propensity for exploring political situations which would ensnare his characters, Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that in his time. Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment—things that were facing us all. Frankenheimer was born in Queens, New York, the son of Helen Mary and Walter Martin Frankenheimer, Frankenheimer once speculated that he might be related to actress Ally Sheedy. His father was of German Jewish descent, his mother was Irish Catholic, Frankenheimer grew up in New York City and became interested in movies at an early age, he recalled going to the cinema every weekend. In 1947, he graduated from La Salle Military Academy in Oakdale, Long Island, in 1951, he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he had studied English. He also developed an interest in acting as a career while in college and this led him to join a film squadron based in Burbank, California, where he shot his first documentary. He also began studying film theory by reading books about other famous directors, in May 2001, amid rumors that he was the biological father of film director Michael Bay, Frankenheimer stated he had a brief relationship with Bays birth mother. Frankenheimer began his career in live television at CBS. Frankenheimers first theatrical film was The Young Stranger, starring James MacArthur as the teenage son of a powerful Hollywood movie producer. He directed the production, based on a Climax, episode, Deal a Blow, which he directed when he was 26. His departure from television is considered to signal the end of the Golden Age of Television, roger Ebert considered Frankenheimer to have had a special gift as a filmmaker and to have been a master craftsman. He stated that Frankenheimer made some of the most distinctive films of his time, production of Birdman of Alcatraz began under director Charles Crichton. Burt Lancaster, who was producing as well as starring, asked Frankenheimer to take over the film, as Frankenheimer describes in Charles Champlins interview book, he advised Lancaster that the script was too long but was told he had to shoot all that was written. The first cut of the film was four-and-a-half hours long, the length Frankenheimer had predicted, moreover, the film was constructed so that it could not be cut and still be coherent

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Miss Evers' Boys
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Miss Evers Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by David Feldshuh, the film was nominated for eleven Emmy Awards and won in four categories, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie. In 1932 she is sent to help Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas to help them treat rural black men in the town of Tuskegee, Alabama. She then comes across 3 men in a schoolhouse, Willie Johnson, Bryan Hodman, and Big Ben Washington. The survivors of the study did receive treatment and financial compensation after the Senate Investigation

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Joseph Sargent
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Joseph Sargent was an American film director. His most popular film was subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Sargent won four Emmy Awards over his career and he is the father of anime dubbing voice actress Lia Sargent. Sargent was born as Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente in Jersey City, New Jersey, Sargent began his career as an actor, appearing in numerous films and television programs. He appeared in a role as a soldier in the film From Here to Eternity where he also meet his first wife Mary Carver on the set. In the mid 1950s Sargent switched to directing, over the next 15 years his directing credits would include episodes of television series Lassie, The Invaders, The Man from U. N. C. L. E. and Star Trek. In 1969, he directed his first feature, science fiction thriller Colossus, The Forbin Project, and in 1972 The Man, starring James Earl Jones and he alternated between television movies and feature films during the 1970s. In 1974, he won his first Directors Guild of America Award for The Marcus-Nelson Murders, in the 1980s, Sargent directed mini-series Manions of America, which featured Pierce Brosnan, and Space. In 1987 he directed Jaws, The Revenge, the sequel to Steven Spielbergs 1975 classic. The film received negative reviews. Roger Ebert called his directing of the climactic sequence incompetent, joseph Sargent and his wife Carolyn Nelson Sargent laid the groundwork for Deaf West Theatre. Sargent spent time as the Senior Filmmaker-in-Residence for the Directing program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles, Sargent died of complications from heart disease at his home in Malibu, California, on December 22,2014. Sargent was nominated for several Emmy awards and his first nomination came for his direction of TV movie Tribes. His second nomination, for Kojak pilot The Marcus-Nelson Murders, resulted in his first Emmy win and he also won Emmys for Love Is Never Silent, Caroline. Sargent was also nominated for Amber Waves, A Lesson Before Dying, Something the Lord Made and Warm Springs, early in his career, he won a Directors Guild of America award for the Kojak pilot. Sargent was nominated for eight DGA awards for movies, more than any other director in this category. In 2005 he won the DGA Outstanding Directorial Achievement award for Something the LORD Made, joseph Sargent at the Internet Movie Database Biography at Hollywood. com at Archive. is Includes details of awards. Joseph Sargent interview video at the Archive of American Television

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The Odyssey (miniseries)
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The Odyssey is a 1997 American fantasy–adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, The Odyssey. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the aired in two-parts beginning on May 18,1997 on NBC. The series won the award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special and it was filmed in Malta, Turkey, parts of England, and many other places around the Mediterranean, where the story takes place. The cast includes Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Irene Papas, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Lee, and Vanessa Williams. Odysseus, the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Ithaca, is called to service in the Trojan War after the birth of his son Telemachus, much to the dismay of his wife Queen Penelope. Odysseus is worried that he may not return, and tells Penelope that she should remarry by the time Telemachus is a man if he not return. The war lasts ten years, during which Greeces best soldier, Achilles, is killed, laocoön tries to warn the Trojans of a vision of this, but is suddenly devoured by a sea monster. Odysseus and his men initially stop on an island dominated by one-eyed giants, a Cyclops named Polyphemus traps them in his cave intending to eat them, but Odysseus gets him drunk on wine, causing him to pass out. Then, he sharpens a tree branch into a stake and blinds the Cyclops, Polyphemus screams for help, but Odysseus had tricked him into stating that his name was Nobody, so the Cyclops is shouting that nobody has tricked him, arousing no suspicion. Odysseus and his men escape, but Odysseus taunts the Cyclops who asks his father Poseidon to avenge him and this makes Odysseus journey home harder. Odysseus travels to an island where Aeolus provides him with a bag of wind to help him home, one of his men opens it prematurely blowing them off course. Next, they stop at the island of Circe, a beautiful witch, Odysseus is told of Circes magic by Hermes, who helps him avoid being transformed as well. Odysseus digs his ship out of the sand and tide and sails to the Underworld, arriving at the Underworld, Tiresias torments Odysseus, recognizing his courage and wit, but criticizes his ego and foolishness. After Odysseus sacrifices a goat into the River Styx, Tiresias tells him that the way home will take him past a treacherous isle where the monsters Scylla. As he is running in terror from the underworld, he meets his mother Anticlea and she informs him that back on Ithaca there are multiple suitors, including Eurymachus, vying with each other to marry Penelope for her money and power. Odysseus boat nears the isle of Scylla and Charybdis, scyllas six serpentine heads wreak havoc on the crew, killing many. Everyone but Odysseus is killed when Charybdis creates a whirlpool and destroys his ship, Odysseus arrives on the island where Calypso lives and becomes her prisoner. Meanwhile, Odysseus now 15-year-old son Telemachus tries to find his father and is told by Athena to travel to Sparta, when Telemachus finds Menelaus, one of Odysseus comrades, he learns that he doesnt know what happened to Odysseus but believes him to be dead

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Andrei Konchalovsky
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Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter. He was a frequent collaborator of Andrei Tarkovsky earlier in his career and he is the son of Natalia Konchalovskaya and Sergey Mikhalkov, and brother to Nikita Mikhalkov who is also a well known Russian film director. He changed his first name to Andrei and took his grandfathers surname as his stage name. He is the brother of filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov and the son of author Sergei Mikhalkov and he studied for ten years at the Moscow Conservatory, preparing for a pianists career. In 1960, however, he met Andrei Tarkovsky and co-scripted his movie Andrei Rublev and his first full-length feature, The First Teacher, was favourably received in the Soviet Union and screened by numerous film festivals abroad. His second film, Asya Klyachinas Story, was suppressed by Soviet authorities, when issued twenty years later, it was acclaimed as his masterpiece. Thereupon, Konchalovsky filmed adaptations of Ivan Turgenevs A Nest of Gentle Folk and Chekhovs Uncle Vanya, in 1979 he was a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. His epic Siberiade upon its 1979 release was received at Cannes. His most popular Hollywood releases are Marias Lovers, Runaway Train, based on a script by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and Tango & Cash, starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. Konchalovskys full-length feature, House of Fools, with a role by Bryan Adams as himself, set in a Chechen psychiatric asylum during the war. His film, The Nutcracker in 3D had its American release on November 24,2010, the film had a reported $90,000,000 budget and brought in a total of $65,944 in its U. S opening weekend. The film was critically derided, with Roger Ebert stating in his review of the film. Who considered it even remotely a plausible idea for a movie and his film The Postmans White Nights won the Silver Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. In 2016 Paradise directed by him won the Silver Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and it was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. Konchalovsky has been married five times and his first wife was Irina Kandat. His second wife was Kazakh actress Natalia Arinbasarova, with whom he has one son, Yegor and his third wife was Viviane Godet, with whom he has a daughter, Alexandra Mikhalkova, born October 6,1971. His fourth wife is Irina Ivanova, with whom he has two daughters, Nathalia and Elena and his fifth wife is Russian actress Julia Vysotskaya, they have been married since 1998 and have two children, Masha and Piotr. After he came to America, while not working, he lived with Shirley MacLaine, then left her for Nastassja Kinski, special Silver St. George for his contribution to world cinema, 20th Moscow International Film Festival,19972003 Sergei Prokofiev TV documentary in the “Geniuses” series

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Weapons of Mass Distraction
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It was written by Larry Gelbart and directed by Stephen Surjik. This film was nominated for four Primetime Emmy awards, lionel Powers and Julian Messenger are filthy rich men with dirty family secrets. They play dirty as well, fighting for control over a football team in Los Angeles with every weapon at their disposal. While the billionaires scheme and squabble, the married couple Rita and their marriage becomes strained with Jerrys continuing inability to hold or find a job. While rich people blackmail one another, homeless people look for handouts and Jerry Pascoe is reduced to cleaning stadium restrooms, the tabloid-worthy secrets in the lives of Powers wife Ariel and right-hand man Alan Blanchard lead to dire consequences for all. The marriage of the Pascoes, meanwhile, turns tragi-comically from a terrible climax to fodder for reality TV

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From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
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The series takes its title from, but is not based upon, the famous Jules Verne science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon. Hanks appears in episode, introducing each of the first eleven. The last episode is represented in a pseudo-documentary format narrated by Blythe Danner, hanks narrates and appears in these scenes as Méliès assistant. The miniseries has a large cast, driven in part by the fact that it portrays 30 of the 32 astronauts who flew, or were preparing to fly. Members of many of the families, and other NASA and non-NASA personnel, are also portrayed. Several fictional characters are included, notably television newscaster Emmett Seaborn who appears in nine of the twelve episodes. The twelve episodes, each directed by different individuals, use a variety of viewpoints and themes, while covering the Mercury, Gemini. Lane Smith portrays Emmett Seaborn, a reporter for a fictional television network. The miniseries, concentrating on the Apollo space program, was produced with an intent not to other dramatic portrayals of events of the space race. Project Mercury, which was portrayed in the film The Right Stuff, was summarized in the first episode. Many of the actors had opportunity to interact and form friendships with the real life astronauts they were portraying. Brett Cullen, who played Apollo 9 Command Module pilot and Apollo 15 commander David Scott, was invited to the Scott family home each time an episode he appeared in was first televised. Two short clips from the scenes of Apollo 13 were used in Thats All There Is, a splashdown sequence. The original series was shot in 1.33,1 aspect ratio, the series was released on DVD as a 4-disc set. With the proliferation of widescreen flat-panel TV sets the series was remastered in 1.78,1 aspect ratio, new framing causes loss of top and bottom parts of the frames from the original movie. This is not always noticeable because of careful transfer process, some captions have also been compromised. Parts of the mini-series were filmed at the Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, scenes of the moonwalks were shot inside the blimp hangars on the former Marine base in Tustin, California. Approximately half the area inside was converted to the Moons surface, the episode also featured a real Apollo Lunar Module, which had been built for the Apollo 18 mission but was never used due to budget cuts

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David Frankel
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David Frankel is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Frankel was born to a Jewish family in New York City and he is the son of Tobia Simone and Max Frankel, a former executive editor of The New York Times and columnist. His birdwatching comedy, The Big Year, starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, JoBeth Williams, as of 2008, he lives in Coconut Grove. It was announced that David Frankel would direct the adaptation of the first novel of the Septimus Heap series. Karen Rosenfelt had also brought on as Producer. Author Angie Sage was assigned as Executive Producer, much has not been said about the film and it is unknown whether the film has been cancelled or merely shelved

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Michael Cristofer
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Michael Ivan Cristofer is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977, Cristofer was born Michael Procaccino in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Mary and Joseph Peter Procaccino. He started his career as an actor, primarily on stage. He has also written screenplays for film. Cristofer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for the Broadway production of his play, after New York City, the play was produced in every major American city and worldwide from Europe to the Far East. His directing credits include Gia, for HBO Pictures starring Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl and Faye Dunaway, which was nominated for five Emmys and for which he won a Directors Guild Award. He next directed Body Shots, starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry OConnell, Amanda Peet and Tara Reid, and Original Sin, starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas and he is currently preparing to direct Fade Out from his own screenplay. Also at River Arts, he wrote stage adaptations of the films Love Me or Leave Me and he directed Joanne Woodward in his own adaptation of Henrik Ibsens Ghosts. His most recent work for the theater, The Whore and Mr. Moore, premiered at Dorset Theatre Festivals 2012 summer season in Dorset, other plays include Pop, Tabarja and Eyes Wide Open. He collaborated with trumpeter Terence Blanchard, writing the libretto for Champion and it premiered in June 2013 at Opera Theater of St. Louis. In 2010, Cristofer was a cast member on AMCs Rubicon, in 2012, he played Jerry Rand on NBCs TV series, Smash, husband to Anjelica Hustons character Eileen. In 2013-14 he played millionaire witch-hunter Harrison Renard in American Horror Story, in 2015, Cristofer made guest appearances in four episodes of season one Mr. Robot as Phillip Price, the shadowy CEO of the sinister E Corp. In 2016, it was announced that Cristofer will be promoted to starring cast member in season two, breaking Up, produced by Primary Stages Ice produced by Manhattan Theatre Club Black Angel, produced by Circle Repertory Company The Lady and the Clarinet Amazing Grace The Whore and Mr

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Tales of the City (miniseries)
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Tales of the City is a 1993 television miniseries based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin. Channel 4 eventually teamed up with the American cable network Showtime to produce the sequel, More Tales of the City, the third instalment of the series, Further Tales of the City was produced by Showtime and was originally aired in the US on Showtime in May 2001. Armistead Maupin himself then revealed that meetings had taken place. Premium cable channel HBO acquired the rights to the first two Tales of the City books in 1982 in the hopes of turning them into a weekly sitcom, pre-production began in the fall of that year with a pilot script by Richard Kramer. Kramer described the script as a Mary Tyler Moore for the 80s, the channel considered toning down the stories and making the series a period piece but ultimately decided to scrap the project. The series was revived for PBS, which aired it in 1993. Kevin Tierney, a Canadian producer of films for Showtime with his firm Productions La Fete. More Tales and Further Tales were produced in Montreal by Productions La Fete and directed by Pierre Gang, some of the cast of the sequel series remained constant, although other roles were cast or recast with Canadian actors. The miniseries premiered on Channel 4 in the UK on 28 September 1993, amid the controversy surrounding the homosexual themes, nudity, and illicit drug use in the miniseries, Tales of the City gave PBS its highest ratings ever for a dramatic programme. In deference to local standards, PBS gave stations the option of showing a version in which male and female body parts were obscured by pixelation. The original six-part miniseries was produced by Britains Channel 4 Television Corporation in conjunction with San Franciscos PBS station KQED and PBS American Playhouse. In addition, Thomas Gibson reprised his Tales role as Beauchamp Day in More Tales and Mary Kay Place, parker Posey, who played Mary Anns high school friend Connie Bradshaw in the first series, appears briefly in both the second and third installments. In More Tales of the City, Paul Hopkins was cast in the role of Mouse, Whip Hubley played Brian, Hopkins and Hubley returned for Further Tales of the City. Armistead Maupin himself made cameo appearances in all three miniseries, regarding the recasts of Brian, Mouse and Mona for the sequels, Maupin has said, Paul Gross was committed to his own TV series, Due South. Despite the rumors, it is not true that Marcus DAmico wasnt invited back because of surrounding his sexuality. The production team met with Marcus and he expressed ambivalence about returning to the role of Mouse, the director felt it was important to find someone who would enthusiastically embrace the role. In 2005, Entertainment Weekly named Tales of the City one of the ten best miniseries on DVD, events in Tales of the City, like the disappearance of Norman Neal Williams, are resolved, and Mrs. Madrigal reveals her secret to her tenants. In the miniseries, Mother Mucca visits and introduces Mrs. Madrigal to a handsome, older man, there is also a new plot line for Connie Bradshaw which did not feature in the original novel

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Channel 4
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Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services, BBC1, BBC2, and ITV. The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, after some months of test broadcasts, it began scheduled transmissions on 2 November 1982. Indeed, television sets throughout the 1970s and early 1980s had a spare channel called ITV/IBA2. It was most likely politics which had the biggest impact in leading to a delay of almost three decades before the commercial channel became a reality. The campaign was taken so seriously by Gwynfor Evans, former president of Plaid Cymru, the result was that Channel 4 as seen by the rest of the United Kingdom would be replaced in Wales by Sianel Pedwar Cymru. Operated by a specially created authority, S4C would air programmes in Welsh made by HTV, since then, carriage on digital cable, satellite and digital terrestrial has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available. The first programme to air on the channel was the game show Countdown. The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second, the first woman on the channel, contrary to popular belief, was not Carol Vorderman and was a lexicographer only ever identified as Mary. Whiteley opened the show with the words, On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran until 2003. On its launch, Channel 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, Channel 4 co-commissioned Robert Ashleys ground-breaking television opera Perfect Lives, which it premiered over several episodes in 1984. The channel often did not receive mass audiences for much of period, however. Channel 4 for many years had a poorer quality signal compared to other channels, Channel 4 also began the funding of independent films, such as the Merchant-Ivory docudrama The Courtesans of Bombay, during this time. In 1992, Channel 4 also faced its first libel case by Jani Allan, a South African journalist, who objected to her representation in the documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Drivers Wife. After control of the station passed from the Channel Four Television Company to the Channel Four Television Corporation in 1993, instead of aiming for the fringes of society, it began to focus on the edges of the mainstream, and the centre of the mass market itself. It began to show many US programmes in peak viewing time and it gave such shows as Friends and ER their UK premières. In the early 2000s, Channel 4 began broadcasting reality formats such as Big Brother and obtained the rights to broadcast mass appeal sporting events like cricket and this new direction increased ratings and revenues. In addition, the corporation launched a number of new channels through its new 4Ventures offshoot, including Film4, At the Races, E4

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Showtime (TV network)
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The Showtime brand is used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to the group of eight multiplex channels in the United States. As of July 2015, Showtimes programming is available to approximately 28.693 million television households in the United States, the channel and its corresponding networks are headquartered at Paramount Plaza on the northern end of New York Citys Broadway district. The following week on July 8, Showtime launched on Viacom Cablevisions system in Dublin, California, the first program and television special to be broadcast on Showtime was Celebration, a concert special featuring performances by Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and ABBA. By the end of its first year on the air, Showtime had a total of 55,000 subscribers nationwide. On March 7,1978, Showtime became a nationally distributed service after it was uplinked to satellite, turning it into a competitor with HBO, in 1979, Viacom sold a 50% ownership interest in Showtime to the TelePrompTer Corporation. On July 4,1981, Showtime adopted a 24-hour programming schedule,1982 saw the premiere of Showtimes first made-for-cable movie Falcons Gold and its first original series and childrens program Faerie Tale Theatre. The three companies announced their agreement in principle to acquire interests in TMC on November 11,1982. Subsequently, in late December of that year, the U. S. Department of Justice launched a preliminary inquiry into the proposed partnership. On January 7,1983, Viacom International added itself as a partner, under the revised proposal, the four studios would each own a 22. 58% stake in the two networks, with American Express owning a 9. 68% minority interest. In addition, the consortium would appoint a management team separate from those employed by the two channels – which would continue to operate as separate services – to operate the joint venture, on August 10,1985, after Time Inc. and cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. The subsidiary was renamed Showtime Networks, Inc. in 1988, also in 1988, the company formed Showtime Event Television as a pay-per-view distributor of special event programming. In 1990, Showtime ventured into acquiring and premiering independent films exclusively for the channel as part of the 30-Minute Movie short film anthology series. One of its first premieres,12,01 PM, was nominated for an Academy Award, in the years that followed, Showtime expanded its acquisitions into the realm of feature-length fare, including the Adrian Lyne-directed 1997 remake of Lolita. In 2000, Showtime launched Showtime Interactive 24.7, a service that provided DVD-style interaction of its entertainment offerings. On June 14,2005, Viacom decided to separate itself into two companies, both of which would be controlled by Viacom parent National Amusements, amid stagnation of the stock price. A new company assumed the Viacom name kept Paramount Pictures, the MTV Networks and BET Networks cable divisions. Showtime broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on both Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules and this planned extension to the multiplex did not come to fruition – although a third multiplex service, Showtime 3, would make its debut in 1996. Three additional themed channels made their debut in March 2001, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next and Showtime Women do not have distribution by most pay television providers as extensive as the other Showtime multiplex channels

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Mildred Pierce (miniseries)
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Mildred Pierce is a five-part miniseries that first aired on HBO on March 27,2011. Adapted from James M. Cains 1941 novel of the name, it was directed by Todd Haynes. Carter Burwell wrote the score for the miniseries. It is the adaptation of the novel, after the 1945 film noir produced by Warner Bros. Mildred Pierce received generally favorable reviews and he finishes with, Winslet’s Mildred is a genuine star turn. How Joan Crawford would have loathed her, the series was shown out of competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011. Official website Mildred Pierce at the Internet Movie Database

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Todd Haynes
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Todd Haynes is an American independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is considered a pioneer of the New Queer Cinema movement of filmmaking that emerged in the early 1990s. Haynes had not obtained proper licensing to use the Carpenters music, prompting a lawsuit from Richard Carpenter, Poison won the Sundance Film Festivals Grand Jury Prize and is regarded as a seminal work of New Queer Cinema. Haynes received further acclaim for his feature film, Safe. Safe was later voted the best film of the 1990s by The Village Voice Film Poll, Haynes next feature, Velvet Goldmine, is a tribute to the 1970s glam rock era, drawing heavily on the rock histories and mythologies of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. The film received the Special Jury Prize for Best Artistic Contribution at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, Haynes gained critical acclaim and a measure of mainstream success with his 2002 feature, Far from Heaven. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Original Screenplay for Haynes and his fifth feature, Im Not There, marked another shift in direction. A nonlinear biopic, Im Not There depicts various facets of Bob Dylan through seven fictionalized characters played by five actors, Im Not There received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Cate Blanchett. In 2015, Haynes returned to the big screen with Carol, his feature film. The film received acclaim and many accolades including six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe Award nominations. Haynes was born January 2,1961, in Los Angeles and his father, Allen E. Haynes, was a cosmetics importer, and his mother, Sherry Lynne, studied acting. Haynes is Jewish on his mothers side and his younger sister is Gwynneth Haynes of the band Sophe Lux. Haynes developed an interest in film at an age, and produced a short film, The Suicide. He studied semiotics at Brown University, where he directed his first short film Assassins, A Film Concerning Rimbaud, at Brown, he met Christine Vachon, who would go on to produce all of his feature films. The film presents Carpenters struggle with anorexia and bulimia, featuring several close-ups of Ipecac, Carpenters chronic weight loss was portrayed by using a Karen Barbie doll with the face and body whittled away with a knife, leaving the doll looking skeletonized. The film is notable for staged dream sequences in which Karen, in a state of deteriorating mental health. Superstar featured extensive use of Carpenter songs, showcasing Haynes love of popular music, Haynes failed to obtain proper licensing to use the music, prompting a lawsuit from Karens brother Richard for copyright infringement. Carpenter was reportedly offended by Haynes unflattering portrayal of him as a narcissistic bully, along with several broadly dropped suggestions that he was gay

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Cinema Verite
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Cinema Verite is a 2011 HBO drama film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. The films main ensemble cast starred Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini, principal photography was completed in Southern California. The film premiered on April 23,2011, the film begins in 1971 with Craig Gilbert discussing with Pat Loud the idea of a documentary series that would concern her familys day-to-day lives. Pat considers the proposal and accepts, amidst her son Lance moving to New York City, Pats husband Bill travels often away on business, leaving his wife alone to care for their five children. The crew moves in with the Louds and begins to document them, relations between Pat and Bill grow frayed due to his time away and the stress of the TV shows production. Gilbert tells Pat of his suspicions surrounding Bills trips away, giving strong evidence that he is cheating on her. The crew fights with Gilbert about his technique, as he makes them film many personal moments. Angry, she tells Gilbert to have cameras there when she tells Bill, wanting his bimbos to see it, against her wishes, he films Pats conversation with her brother and his wife. Pat begins to regret her decision to let Gilbert film the break up and he, however, does not work up the courage to do this, and Pat kicks Bill out of her home on camera. The film cuts to one later, when An American Family is experiencing its premiere. The show airs to strong ratings but much criticism of members of the family, in particular Pat for how she came off on camera. The family then gets together to back, addressing their critics by appearing on many talk shows. Title cards at films end offer updates for each Loud family member, Lance died of AIDS in 2001, his last wish for his parents to move back in with each other. They currently live together in Los Angeles, the film is presented in chapters, with chapter titles such as The Chelsea and The Battle for the Camera Begins. When the chapter titles are shown, short clips from the original 1973 documentary are shown alongside in split screen format, Cinema Verite met with a positive reception from television critics. On review aggregator Metacritic the film received a positive score of 74 out of 100. The film garnered nine nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards and won one technical award prior to the televised ceremony, the film has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards. Official website Cinema Verite at the Internet Movie Database Cinema Verite at AllMovie Lloyd, television reviews, Cinema Verite and An American Family

Gulliver's Travels (miniseries)
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Gullivers Travels is a U. S. TV miniseries based on Jonathan Swifts novel of the same name, produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment. This miniseries is notable for being one of the few adaptations of Swifts novel to feature all four voyages. The miniseries aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4, and it was shot in England an

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the

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The Comcast Building in New York City (or the GE Building, originally the RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.

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Radio City West was located at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.

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Entrance at the GE Building.

If These Walls Could Talk
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If These Walls Could Talk is a 1996 made-for-cable film, broadcast on HBO. It follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion, each of the three stories takes place in the same house,22 years apart,1952,1974, and 1996. All three segments were co-written by Nancy Savoca, Savoca directed the first and second segment w

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If These Walls Could Talk

HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the U

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The RCA Satcom domestic communication satellite launched on December 13, 1975, spurred the cable television industry to unprecedented heights – with the assistance of HBO.

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Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi and former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey at the New York City premiere of Pelosi's HBO documentary about McGreevey, Fall to Grace, in March 2013.

A&E Network
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The channel originally focused programming on biographies, documentaries, and drama series but has later expanded to include reality television programming. As of July 2015, the A&E network is available to approximately 95,968,000 pay television households in the United States, the U. S. version of the channel is shown in Canada while international

CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network,

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Paley's management saw a twentyfold increase in gross income in his first decade.

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Wholesome Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth

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When Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after 20 years of mime, he chose CBS's airwaves to do it on.

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CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent.

George Wallace (film)
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George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it, Sinise, the film was based on the 1996 biography Wallace, The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Marshall Frady, who also co-wrote the teleplay. Fra

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John Frankenheimer
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John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, The Train, Seconds, Grand Prix, French Connection II, Black Sunday, and Ronin. He was considered one of the last remaining directors who i

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John Frankenheimer on the set of "Andersonville" in 1995

Miss Evers' Boys
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Miss Evers Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by David Feldshuh, the film was nominated for eleven Emmy Awards and won in four categories, including Outstandin

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Joseph Sargent
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Joseph Sargent was an American film director. His most popular film was subway thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Sargent won four Emmy Awards over his career and he is the father of anime dubbing voice actress Lia Sargent. Sargent was born as Giuseppe Danielle Sorgente in Jersey City, New Jersey, Sargent began his career as an actor, app

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Joseph Sargent

The Odyssey (miniseries)
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The Odyssey is a 1997 American fantasy–adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, The Odyssey. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the aired in two-parts beginning on May 18,1997 on NBC. The series won the award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special and it was filmed in Malta, Turkey, parts of Engl

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Andrei Konchalovsky
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Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter. He was a frequent collaborator of Andrei Tarkovsky earlier in his career and he is the son of Natalia Konchalovskaya and Sergey Mikhalkov, and brother to Nikita Mikhalkov who is also a well known Russian film director. He changed his first name to

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Andrei Konchalovsky in 2010

Weapons of Mass Distraction
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It was written by Larry Gelbart and directed by Stephen Surjik. This film was nominated for four Primetime Emmy awards, lionel Powers and Julian Messenger are filthy rich men with dirty family secrets. They play dirty as well, fighting for control over a football team in Los Angeles with every weapon at their disposal. While the billionaires scheme

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Weapons of Mass Distraction

From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
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The series takes its title from, but is not based upon, the famous Jules Verne science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon. Hanks appears in episode, introducing each of the first eleven. The last episode is represented in a pseudo-documentary format narrated by Blythe Danner, hanks narrates and appears in these scenes as Méliès assistant. The

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Title caption of From the Earth to the Moon

David Frankel
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David Frankel is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Frankel was born to a Jewish family in New York City and he is the son of Tobia Simone and Max Frankel, a former executive editor of The New York Times and columnist. His birdwatching comedy, The Big Year, starring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, JoBeth Williams, as of 2008, he lives

Michael Cristofer
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Michael Ivan Cristofer is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977, Cristofer was born Michael Procaccino in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Mary and Joseph Peter Procaccino. He started his career as an actor, primarily on stage. He has also wri

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Cristofer performing in Captors in 2011

Tales of the City (miniseries)
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Tales of the City is a 1993 television miniseries based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin. Channel 4 eventually teamed up with the American cable network Showtime to produce the sequel, More Tales of the City, the third instalment of the series, Further Tales of the City was produced by Showtime and was orig

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Channel 4
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Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services, BBC1, BBC2, and ITV. The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a f

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Channel 4

Showtime (TV network)
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The Showtime brand is used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to the group of eight multiplex channels in the United States. As of July 2015, Showtimes programming is available to approximately 28.693 million television households in the United States, the channel and its corresponding networks are headquar

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Showtime

Mildred Pierce (miniseries)
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Mildred Pierce is a five-part miniseries that first aired on HBO on March 27,2011. Adapted from James M. Cains 1941 novel of the name, it was directed by Todd Haynes. Carter Burwell wrote the score for the miniseries. It is the adaptation of the novel, after the 1945 film noir produced by Warner Bros. Mildred Pierce received generally favorable rev

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Official poster of the miniseries released by HBO.

Todd Haynes
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Todd Haynes is an American independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is considered a pioneer of the New Queer Cinema movement of filmmaking that emerged in the early 1990s. Haynes had not obtained proper licensing to use the Carpenters music, prompting a lawsuit from Richard Carpenter, Poison won the Sundance Film Festivals Grand Ju

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Haynes at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

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Todd Haynes and actors of his 2007 film, I'm Not There posing at the 64th Venice Film Festival in 2007.

Cinema Verite
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Cinema Verite is a 2011 HBO drama film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. The films main ensemble cast starred Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini, principal photography was completed in Southern California. The film premiered on April 23,2011, the film begins in 1971 with Craig Gilbert discussing with Pat Loud the idea of

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The London Studios near Waterloo was originally the base for the ITV London weekend contractor LWT but is now ITV's main London headquarters.

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ITV

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Granada Studios was the oldest TV studios in the UK, having been built in 1954 to house the broadcaster of the same name. The studios were closed in June 2013. Granada is the only franchise to remain an ITV contractor since creation in 1954.

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The Leeds Studios, used by ITV Yorkshire. Each ITV region originally had its own studios, however the rise of publisher-broadcasters like Carlton Television and the takeover of regions caused several studios to be closed.